I am a sucker for this sort of thing. Like all men, apparently, I cant help thinking about the Roman Empire every single day. And this is the sort of tool that helps me understand exactly what I’m thinking about.
Sasha Trubetskoy, formerly an undergrad at U. Chicago, has created a “subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD.” Drawing on Stanford’s ORBIS model, The Pelagios Project, and the Antonine Itinerary, Trubetskoy’s map combines well-known historic roads, like the Via Appia, with lesser-known ones (in somes cases given imagined names). If you want to get a sense of scale, it would take, Trubetskoy tells us, “two months to walk on foot from Rome to Byzantium. If you had a horse, it would only take you a month.”
great - i'd already used up my 15 times a day thinking about the roman empire and now you've pushed me into Andrew Tate levels of thinking about it. (shakes iron clad fist at Birmingham)
Isn't it a true fact that Roman roads were dead straight, because they were built for marching soldiers? So they didn't need bends to manage steeper gradients and the like.
great - i'd already used up my 15 times a day thinking about the roman empire and now you've pushed me into Andrew Tate levels of thinking about it. (shakes iron clad fist at Birmingham)
Cool tool, I am a fan of the interactive map that you can use to calculates travel times in the Roman Empire https://orbis.stanford.edu/
That is nuts. Who would go to all that trouble?
Excuse me have you met academics.
I think about the Roman Empire occasionally, but I think about Jacinda Barrett and Nicole Kidman more.
Funny. I hadn't thought once of the Roman Empire today until I saw this. Makes me regret that my middle school Latin didn't stick.
Isn't it a true fact that Roman roads were dead straight, because they were built for marching soldiers? So they didn't need bends to manage steeper gradients and the like.